Architectural Design and EthicsRoutledge, 9 de maig 2008 - 264 pàgines Architectural Design and Ethics offers both professional architects and architecture students a theoretical base and numerous suggestions as to how we might rethink our responsibilities to the natural world and design a more sustainable future for ourselves. As we find ourselves on the steep slope of several exponential growth curves – in global population, in heat-trapping atmospheric gases, in the gap between the rich and poor, and in the demand for finite resources, Fisher lays down a theory of architecture based on ethics and explores how buildings can and do provide both social and moral dimensions. The book also has practical goals, demonstrating how architects can make better and more beautiful buildings whilst nurturing more responsible, sustainable development. Architectural Design and Ethics will prove an invaluable text not only to those in the architecture field, but to anyone simply interested in the ethical issues surrounding our built environment. |
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... wealth and poverty, with 2 per cent of the global population now controlling 50 per cent of household wealth and with 50 per cent of the population controlling barely 1 per cent of it2. Another exponential curve has occurred in the ...
... wealth and poverty, with 2 per cent of the global population now controlling 50 per cent of household wealth and with 50 per cent of the population controlling barely 1 per cent of it2. Another exponential curve has occurred in the ...
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... wealth of strategies to help us deal with the setbacks and disappointments in our lives, showing how attending to others in need is, in fact, in our best interest. In each chapter, related design principles offer thoughts of how ethical ...
... wealth of strategies to help us deal with the setbacks and disappointments in our lives, showing how attending to others in need is, in fact, in our best interest. In each chapter, related design principles offer thoughts of how ethical ...
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... Wealth of Nations, Smith, a professor of moral philosophy, authored another, less-frequently read book – A Theory of Moral Sentiments – that makes the connection between ethics and economics in ways that will be quite useful if we have ...
... Wealth of Nations, Smith, a professor of moral philosophy, authored another, less-frequently read book – A Theory of Moral Sentiments – that makes the connection between ethics and economics in ways that will be quite useful if we have ...
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... wealth comes not in having a lot of possessions, but in needing so little and having so little to lose: he needs water, but only so much as he requires for his body to keep functioning, and he doesn't need diamonds, however much kings ...
... wealth comes not in having a lot of possessions, but in needing so little and having so little to lose: he needs water, but only so much as he requires for his body to keep functioning, and he doesn't need diamonds, however much kings ...
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... wealth that manufacture and trade help create. That the global marketplace has made a few people very rich while the majority of people have made relatively little economic progress has partly to do with scale. Smith believed that moral ...
... wealth that manufacture and trade help create. That the global marketplace has made a few people very rich while the majority of people have made relatively little economic progress has partly to do with scale. Smith believed that moral ...
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How nature suffers in the naturalistic fallacy | 35 |
Why having less is more | 69 |
When virtues are no vice | 103 |
Drafting a new social contract | 135 |
The needs of duty | 171 |
The consequences of ignoring consequences | 203 |
References | 237 |
Index | 245 |
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